India - Employment and Unemployment Survey: NSS 43rd Round : July 1987 - June 1988, Fourth Quinquennial Survey

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-43Rnd-Sch10-1987-88

Year

1987 - 1988

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office - M/o Statistcs and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI)

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

Employment and Unemployment

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Jan 15, 2018

Last modified

Mar 26, 2019

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Purpose of loan (B9_q5)
File: Block-9-Household-Loan-Records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 11218
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Purpose of loan

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Medical expenses	1029	9.2%
2	Educational expenses	90	0.8%
3	Legal expanses	48	0.4%
4	Other consumption expenses	4742	42.3%
5	Marriage and other ceremonial expenses	1256	11.2%
6	Purchase of land and construction building	662	5.9%
7	Productive product	2546	22.7%
8	Repayment of debt	136	1.2%
9	Others	709	6.3%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Interviewer instructions

The purpose for which the loan has been contracted by the household will be recorded in this column in terms of codes. If a particular loan is taken to meet more than one purpose, the purpose for which large part of the loan is intended to be utilized will be considered for recording entries against this column. The purpose for loan taken for legal expenses to be incurred towards enterprises account will get code 7. While code 4 will cover for loans taken for the purpose of food consumption, consumption of clothing, purchase of durable goods, etc.